What is Wide Open Tech?

We build the data platform a company's reporting and analytics run on: a warehouse in your own cloud, ingestion from every system you run (legacy systems with no API included), tested dbt models with a semantic layer so a metric means the same thing everywhere it appears, and reporting your team actually opens. Once discovery is done, a working platform lands in 14 to 21 days, and one owner stays accountable after launch.

Companies of 11 to 200 people, in any industry, that have people who use data (analysts, data scientists, IT managers, operations leads) and nobody who builds it: no data engineer and no analytics engineer. The usual alternative to us is not another firm. It is a data-engineer hire at $100k to $150k a year (hire or use a firm?).

Founded 2002 in Wilmington, NC as Wide Open Technologies; now an Atlanta data platform consultancy. Kendall Barber-Mayo bought the company in November 2024 and moved it to Atlanta. The older reviews on our Clutch profile are from before that, when the firm built websites and did marketing work.

• Since 2019, Kendall has built data systems at Dealer Inspire (a Cars.com company), Randstad USA, CNN and Whatnot.
• We run the production operations software and data platforms behind two national franchise systems, used daily by more than 500 operators across the US and Canada.
• Kendall has built data platforms for six companies.
• One went from first commit to a documented handover in 17 days. Its weekly automated reporting has run in production since July 2026.
• At another, pulling numbers from POS systems into Excel took a week or more. Now a report takes a few minutes.

Engagements run in three steps. First a Data Platform Blueprint: we survey every system you run, map which questions each one can answer, and hand you a sized, phased plan. Then a fixed-price build, 14 to 21 days to a working platform. Then a monthly retainer for maintenance and new features, because somebody has to keep owning it.

We are an AI-native shop: agents do the delivery work. It runs on multi-agent workflows where the agent that checks the work is never the agent that did it, and tests are confirmed failing before code lands. Kendall approves every plan and every merge.

Kendall leads every engagement himself and decides what ships.

Kendall Barber-MayoOwner, Wide Open Tech

Kendall owns and runs Wide Open Tech. He has worked as a data engineer since 2019, at Dealer Inspire (a Cars.com company), Randstad USA, CNN and Whatnot, and bought the company in November 2024. More about Kendall.

• Address: 976 Brady Ave NW, Suite 100, Atlanta, GA 30318
• Email: kendall@wideopentech.com
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